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L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. aka Ron DeWolf

«Lafayette Ronald Hubbard Junior. L.
Ron Hubbard's first child, born on 7 May 1934 at
2lb 2oz, known as "Nibs", to Margaret Louise Grubb,
also know as "Polly." — Miller.

Ronald Hubbard
Jr., nicknamed "Nibs", later Ronald DeWolf; Hubbard's
first son. He broke with LRH in 1959. He was the
Executive Secretary of the Church of Scientology.
His wife persuaded him to quit the church in 1959
and he has been estranged From his father since
that time. To avoid Church of Scientology harassment
he changed his name to Ronald DeWolf in 1972. Brought
Probate case no. 47150 against LRH in November 1982
in Riverside, California. — Lamont.

I have come to the conclusion that L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. was used
as one of Hubbard's guinea pigs to test this premise of blows
and obedience; that many of the lessons Hubbard learned from
his experiments on his son were further implemented on the ship.
Ron Jr. was, in essence, a life-long "prisoner of war"; a prisoner
of Hubbard and his organization's machinations. Hubbard trained
his troops to find a person's breaking point, in order to bend
him or her to his will. He had done this with his own son, early
and continuously. While Ron Jr. was not physically struck by
his father, his weaknesses were exploited. When he virtually
fled the organization in 1959, according to his account, he
was hounded. Although he was out of the organization, his father
retained the ability to manipulate him, even into changing his
name. It is obvious to anyone who knows Ron Jr. that he spent
his whole life attempting to escape from the mental "prison"
that his father had created for him.

While Ron Jr. may never have questioned his father and the mushrooming
cult of Scientology, a growing uneasiness began to take hold
of him. In 1953 he married Henrietta, whom he never allowed
to join the church. They were to have six children --Deborah,
Leif, Esther, Eric, Harry and Alex, age twelve, who suffers
from Down's Syndrome-- plus six grandchildren, none or whom
were ever members of Scientology. The importance of family life,
especially in contrast to his own up-bringing, caused Ron Jr.
to question his life as a member of Scientology, albeit privately.
Other factors also caused Ron Jr. to think about breaking away
from the cult that was dominating his life.
His father's autocratic and arbitrary
control of Scientology often led to violence, and the young
Hubbard began to be disturbed by his own participation.
Certain questionable transactions involving drug dealing and
the transfer of large sums of money abroad by his father was
another troubling factor. But, he says, the breaking point came
over his father's involvement with the Russians. Finally, in
1959, when his father was in Australia, Ron, his wife, and two
children fled the Church of Scientology.

Fighting these activists for Scientology's riches is Hubbard's
estranged son, Ronald DeWolf, 48, who changed his name in 1972
in an effort, he says, to escape harassment by Scientologists.
DeWolf has asked a California superior court to appoint a trustee
to protect his father's estate from the new leaders. In his
court petition, DeWolf contends that his father, who he says
has long suffered from "severe mental illness and physical disease,"
is either dead or "incompetent." DeWolf also charges that his
father used "criminal means" to acquire "wealth, fame and power."
[...]

His name has been changed from L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., to
Ron deWolf, and he’s the firstborn son of the former science
fiction writer who founded the Church of Scientology. It’s been
23 years since he’s seen his father, and he suspects that the
founder of what many people call a
destructive
cult may, in truth, be dead.

"To
be perfectly frank, my life’s been pretty much of a disaster
and a miserable mess because of Scientology — and you can quote
me on that." he told the News-Herald recently in an exclusive
interview.

9. My father has always held out Scientology and auditing to
be based purely on science and not on religious "belief or faith.
We regularly promised and distributed publications with "scientific
guarantees". This was and has always been common practice.
My father and I created a "religious front"
only for tax purposes and legal protection 'from fraud Claims'.
We almost always told nearly everyone that Scientology was really
science, not a religion, but that the religious front was created
to deal with the government.